{"id":29003,"date":"2006-11-14T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/11\/14\/keeping-classic-hardware-alive-through-emulation\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T10:00:15","slug":"keeping-classic-hardware-alive-through-emulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061114-15\/?p=29003","title":{"rendered":"Keeping classic hardware alive through emulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Windows&nbsp;2000 Conference and Expo which coincided with the operating system&#8217;s launch, I paid a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emulators.com\/\">emulators.com<\/a> booth, where they were excitedly showing off SoftMac&nbsp;2000, a Mac emulator that ran on Windows&nbsp;2000. Emulator trivia: MacOS booted in five seconds under Windows&nbsp;2000, which was <strong>faster<\/strong> than the real Mac, because the emulator simulated a 1GB Mac so the Mac memory manager never had to do any paging. Now, the host computer didn&#8217;t have 1GB of real RAM, so the host computer was still paging, but it turns out that you&#8217;re better off letting the Windows&nbsp;2000 kernel do the paging than the copy of MacOS running inside the emulator.\n Anyway, Darek Mihocka, the proprietor of emulators.com, has started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emulators.com\/secrets.htm\"> posting his thoughts on Intel&#8217;s new Core 2<\/a>, and given the promo titles of his upcoming entries, it looks like he&#8217;s going to start digging into running Vista on his Mac Pro.<\/p>\n<p> But all of this yammering about emulation is just a sideshow to the real issue: The picture of the hardware that Darek&#8217;s retiring. I mean, look at it. He&#8217;s retiring more computers than I own! I bet he&#8217;s one of those people who relocates his computers during the winter in order to use them as space heaters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Windows&nbsp;2000 Conference and Expo which coincided with the operating system&#8217;s launch, I paid a visit to the emulators.com booth, where they were excitedly showing off SoftMac&nbsp;2000, a Mac emulator that ran on Windows&nbsp;2000. Emulator trivia: MacOS booted in five seconds under Windows&nbsp;2000, which was faster than the real Mac, because the emulator simulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-29003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>At the Windows&nbsp;2000 Conference and Expo which coincided with the operating system&#8217;s launch, I paid a visit to the emulators.com booth, where they were excitedly showing off SoftMac&nbsp;2000, a Mac emulator that ran on Windows&nbsp;2000. Emulator trivia: MacOS booted in five seconds under Windows&nbsp;2000, which was faster than the real Mac, because the emulator simulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}